suction tip

English

Noun

suction tip (plural suction tips)

1. (medicine) A Yankauer suction tip, a medical suctioning instrument.
   • 1984, Bernard Nathanson, The Silent Scream:

     But, once the fluid has been drained off, the suction tip has now been firmly clamped to the child’s body, and the child is being pulled in a downward direction, by the abortionist’s suction tip with the negative pressure applied to it, and the body is now being torn, systematically, from the head.

   • 1997 September 19, Cecil Adams, “the Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     Of course, one must take care not to inadvertently seal the ear canal with the suction tip, thereby risking "tympanic membrane barotrauma" and possibly sucking out the patient's brains.